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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Anne's newly purchased used car?
(a) It dies at a stop sign.
(b) It rolls into a car in a parking lot.
(c) It skids on wet pavement.
(d) Its brakes fail and she hits a tree.

2. What does Anne realize is her problem with the woman at Sam's school?
(a) Anne is a single mother
(b) Anne's inferiority complex
(c) Anne does not have as much money
(d) Anne's perspective on the woman's actions

3. Why does Anne think that bad things happen?
(a) Because people are essentially bad and they deserve bad things.
(b) God wants to see what is in your heart.
(c) They distract you from something wonderful waiting to be born.
(d) Because God tests everyone at some point.

4. What happens to Anne when she is almost 30?
(a) She starts her own business.
(b) She has an abortion.
(c) She goes to law school.
(d) She gets cancer.

5. Paley believes that women can be part of the equal rights movement without giving up _____________________.
(a) husbands
(b) children
(c) pedicures
(d) traditional feminine things

Short Answer Questions

1. What is common among the children of the sixties?

2. Who is the gay man in her church who is dying from AIDS?

3. What do Anne and Sam see coming in from the mountains in Idaho?

4. What does Anne say wears on her to the point that she knows she has to do something about it?

5. Who does Anne befriend when she is sixteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does an Ash Wednesday morning, which Anne means to be filled with respect, turn out completely the opposite?

2. How is Anne part of another little miracle?

3. When Anne and Sam are at Ixtapa for vacation, they are both still mourning the death of Anne's friend, Pammy. What happens to alter Anne's perspective a little?

4. One day Anne sits next to a man on a plane who notes the cross on a chain around Anne's neck and asks if she is a born-again Christian? How does Anne respond?

5. Why does Anne admire a woman who rejects ministrations from the church elders?

6. Describe Anne's trip to the beach when she tries to get rid of a headache.

7. Describe Anne's life at 28.

8. What does Anne consider to be the first miracle she witnesses?

9. How does Anne learn that she receives grace to overcome and endure?

10. How might the example of Anne's stalled car be considered a traveling mercy?

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